The Best NFL Running Backs of All Time

#1 on the original list Barry Sanders Running back Great Speed and moves played on a terrible team and it says alot when he ran for the most negative yards in history and still is 3rd all time in yards if he has the if you switch him with Emmit Smith(

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#2 on the original list Walter Payton Running back The hardest working most dedicated player in history! All time leading rusher when h retired with more than 16,000 yards. Some of the early bear teams he played on where terrible and the

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#11 on the original list Gale Sayers Running back, Return specialist Barring Barry Sanders NOBODY is comparible to his speed and Elusivenss.His play is often over looked because of his relationship with Brian Piccolo but truth is Sayers was amazing and Piccolo was

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#3 on the original list Jim Brown Running back, Fullback Jim Brown was the original "Beast". He was just a brute running the ball and he also had open field speed. Brown like Barry Sander played 9 years and decided to hang it up in his

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#13 on the original list O. J. Simpson Running back O.J was just sick with the football. He played in the crappy conditions in Buffalo crappy teams and the time when he played 2,000 yards was impossible. Yet O.J did it. He was just so long and

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